I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered.

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.